A look at royal wedding flowers and royal wedding cakes

They’re no longer simply Prince William and Kate Middleton — they are now officially the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. I just know that if my mom had been alive today, I’d be at her house, going through YouTube clips with her of today’s wedding, or giving her a manicure as we watched wall-to-wall coverage.

Flickr photo by The British Monarchy

Overall, the royal wedding looked to be an elaborate affair that was carried off without a hitch, and in spite of the pressure and all the press, both William and Kate looked to be truly happy on their wedding day. As we all know from today’s coverage, there even appeared to be joking at the altar. I also love how Prince Harry looked to be genuinely happy for his big brother.

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How do royals do wedding giveaways?

I’ve seen all manner of wedding giveaways here in the U.S., from ceramic knicknacks, to CD compilations of the couple’s favorite music, to candy, to potpourri (my least favorite). I don’t know how the British do, but if you’re royalty, you do full-on china.

Flickr photo by The British Monarchy

Talk about a souvenir. The script, if you were wondering, reads “Celebrate the Marriage of Prince William of Wales and Catherine Middleton” with the date of the wedding at the bottom. I love the entwined C and W with a crown above. The border of the plate (if its fine china, can you still call a single unit a “plate”?) features bows, vines and “C” and “W” initials facing out. Yeah, I don’t think anyone will be eating on these.
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Flowers for a royal wedding

As we all know, if there was ever a #1 priority here at Wedding Decorator Blog, it would be flowers. So when it comes to the royal wedding (just 10 days to go!), what will the flowers look like????

Apparently, its a tradition for the bridal bouquet to be massive. Just check out Lady-turned-Princess Diana’s bridal bouquet for her wedding in 1981.

Photo from BBC America

That’s a big bouquet. I don’t know about anyone else, but I would have had to lift weights to get ready to hold that size bouquet all day long. Plus, it was halfway to the ground!

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Royal wedding cakes

There’s been quite a bit of news out there about the wedding cake that will be served at William and Kate’s royal wedding.

What’s most interesting to me is that the official wedding cake will be a fruit cake. Literally, the type of cake that people — maybe just us Americans? — make jokes about every Christmas. Apparently, its not really a joke to Britons — they really love their fruit cake and it is a Christmas tradition for them. I don’t know how it became a joke in America, but maybe it was just lost in translation.

Check out this interview with the baker who will design the official, multi-tiered wedding fruit cake:

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A royal wedding website

Just out of curiosity, how does one score the job of “Royal Webmaster?” Wouldn’t that be kind of cool?

Anyway, a modern wedding of course needs a wedding website, and Prince William and his fiancée are demonstrating to the world every day that they are a modern couple in every way. So of course, soon after their engagement was announced to the world, a royal wedding website was unveiled.

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